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Dance
Eva Chou
Professor in the Department of English, CUNY Baruch College — United States
Eva Chou has written on the great eighth-century poet Tu Fu (Cambridge University Press) and the seminal twentieth-century writer Lu Xun (Association for Asian Studies Publications). Now researching ballet in China, she has published many articles on the subject and frequently reviews dance performances. Her work has been supported by the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, Library of Congress, Japan Foundation, H.F. Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, ACLS, and Radcliffe Institute; she has held visiting positions at University of Cambridge and Charles University, Prague.
While in residence Eva will be working on a history of the project to create Chinese ballets, a project that developed in parallel to, and sometimes in rivalry with, the classical ballet repertory received from Soviet advisors. Its most long-lived works are "Our Red Army Girls" and "White-Haired Girl" from the 1960s while recent notable works were premiered in 2022 for the Communist Party’s 100th anniversary. Their development is used to show how creative works negotiated the state’s cultural policies; their dance analyses reveal the compromises and solutions that, taken together, make for a complex record that will be continuing.
Dance
Kristopher Estes-Brown
Choreographer, Composer, and Theater Director — United States
Kristopher Estes-Brown is an American multidisciplinary artist who has worked as a choreographer, composer, and theater director. His choreography has been described as athletic and expressive with unique musicality, and eye-catching theatricality. Estes-Brown has created over 90 contemporary dance works as well as 8 full-length ballets. Estes-Brown’s music melds a big cinematic sound with dance theater sensibilities. His music has been featured in dance, theater, short films and digital media.
While in residency at Bogliasco, Kristopher Estes-Brown will be choreographing and composing When It Leaves. This work explores early life traumas and their physical manifestations throughout different stages of development. In 2026, When It Leaves will be produced into a dance theater production.
Film/Video
Henry Hills
Experimental Filmmaker — United States
HENRY HILLS has been making short, intensely rhythmic experimental films since 1975. A longtime resident of New York's East Village, he has maintained working relationships with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets, composer John Zorn, & choreographer Sally Silvers. From 2005-2018 he was Professor at FAMU, the Czech national film academy in Prague, and he currently lives in Vienna. He received a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship & has films in the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art.
Hills will be both editing & shooting material for a short film using water imagery. While the frame will be filled with lovely abstract patterns, the focus of the progression will be on the periphery (eg., water from the Vaporetto in Venice with wooden foundation beams and reflections of the palazzos hovering in the corners, or from the East River water taxis with the Wall Street skyline creeping into the background). The film is about the transitory nature of earthly joy. Hills wants to be optimistic.
Upcoming Fellows
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Dance
Eva Chou
Professor in the Department of English, CUNY Baruch College — United States
Eva Chou has written on the great eighth-century poet Tu Fu (Cambridge University Press) and the seminal twentieth-century writer Lu Xun (Association for Asian Studies Publications). Now researching ballet in China, she has published many articles on the subject and frequently reviews dance performances. Her work has been supported by the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, Library of Congress, Japan Foundation, H.F. Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, ACLS, and Radcliffe Institute; she has held visiting positions at University of Cambridge and Charles University, Prague.
While in residence Eva will be working on a history of the project to create Chinese ballets, a project that developed in parallel to, and sometimes in rivalry with, the classical ballet repertory received from Soviet advisors. Its most long-lived works are "Our Red Army Girls" and "White-Haired Girl" from the 1960s while recent notable works were premiered in 2022 for the Communist Party’s 100th anniversary. Their development is used to show how creative works negotiated the state’s cultural policies; their dance analyses reveal the compromises and solutions that, taken together, make for a complex record that will be continuing.
Dance
Kristopher Estes-Brown
Choreographer, Composer, and Theater Director — United States
Kristopher Estes-Brown is an American multidisciplinary artist who has worked as a choreographer, composer, and theater director. His choreography has been described as athletic and expressive with unique musicality, and eye-catching theatricality. Estes-Brown has created over 90 contemporary dance works as well as 8 full-length ballets. Estes-Brown’s music melds a big cinematic sound with dance theater sensibilities. His music has been featured in dance, theater, short films and digital media.
While in residency at Bogliasco, Kristopher Estes-Brown will be choreographing and composing When It Leaves. This work explores early life traumas and their physical manifestations throughout different stages of development. In 2026, When It Leaves will be produced into a dance theater production.
Film/Video
Henry Hills
Experimental Filmmaker — United States
HENRY HILLS has been making short, intensely rhythmic experimental films since 1975. A longtime resident of New York's East Village, he has maintained working relationships with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets, composer John Zorn, & choreographer Sally Silvers. From 2005-2018 he was Professor at FAMU, the Czech national film academy in Prague, and he currently lives in Vienna. He received a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship & has films in the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art.
Hills will be both editing & shooting material for a short film using water imagery. While the frame will be filled with lovely abstract patterns, the focus of the progression will be on the periphery (eg., water from the Vaporetto in Venice with wooden foundation beams and reflections of the palazzos hovering in the corners, or from the East River water taxis with the Wall Street skyline creeping into the background). The film is about the transitory nature of earthly joy. Hills wants to be optimistic.